1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 274 Steps
In the following period, the Linpan Refinery was in chaos.

The villagers from several nearby villages seemed to be rehearsing in turns. When people from one village left, people from another village came over to "organize a visit."

In just three days, more than seventy unemployed young people were brutally victimized by scammers. Not only could their screams be heard everywhere in Linpan, but more than a dozen unlucky guys were beaten to minor injuries and sent to the hospital because the villagers failed to control the strength of the beatings.

As a result, the refinery's most fashionable game room, billiard room, video room, and skating rink suddenly became deserted. After seeing the miserable plight of their friends with their own eyes, how could the other idle and unemployed young people dare to go out?

In fact, not to mention the places mentioned above which are regarded as gathering places for bad teenagers in this era, even the night barbecues where the general public likes to gather have become much quieter... No one wants to run into those mad dog-like villagers. Although everyone can see some of the tricks now, if they are really misunderstood and beaten by those weapons, they will be in trouble for the rest of their lives.

In addition to those unemployed young people, some local students of Linpan Middle School also suffered greatly.

In addition to the morning school hours, at noon, in the afternoon, and during evening self-study, whenever school starts or ends, the villagers will definitely show up first, and then call out the names of the former "big shots" in each class, and pull them over to ask them to eat a slap in the face in front of countless teachers and students. Although the force is not strong, it is extremely insulting.
In just three days, nearly a hundred students who participated in or had participated in school bullying suffered this double blow physically and mentally. Many of them were even sent to the police station multiple times and suffered psychological trauma. Some even cried and shouted at home that they didn't want to go to school.

what?
You've revealed such a big thing, but Linpan Oilfield doesn't care?

Tube!
Of course I am in charge!

The day after the incident, the refinery not only ordered the security brigade to patrol everywhere, but also sent a team of people to wait directly at the gate of Linpan Middle School.

But it didn't really have much effect.

You have to know that the local relationship between workers and peasants has always been the top priority of major production units in the oil system. Even without the big hat of "workers and peasants are one family" on its head, the Linpan Oilfield would not dare to offend the nearby villages too much.

Therefore, after the security brigade was guarding the gate of Linpan Middle School, the villagers would no longer stupidly block the school gate. But as long as the students on the list were more than 30 meters away from the school gate and the small area protected by the security brigade, there would definitely be two or three villagers wearing old cotton-padded jackets who would surround them and treat them to big-eared melon seeds with all kinds of reasons.

In response, the members of the security brigade either pretended not to see it, or were pushed back by the villagers to guard the 30-meter area of ​​responsibility... In short, they did not dare to take any action.

In fact, they also knew that even if their superiors did not ask them to exercise restraint as much as possible, if a fight really came to a head, unless they used weapons, they would not be able to defeat these villagers who had received militia training; but if they really used weapons, this matter would be impossible to resolve... It was the late 1980s, and which village didn't have some weapons left over from their ancestors?
what?
Are you asking about the Public Security Department?

Ok……

The Public Security Department naturally took action as well.

However, they did not accept the request to go to the Linpan Oilfield to protect the students. Instead, some parents of the students called the police.

Due to management regulations, since someone has called the police, the comrades from the Public Security Department naturally need to be dispatched.

However, as mentioned in the previous article, the Public Security Department is a special department, and a special department with a somewhat mysterious position... In many cases, they must fully consider and respect the opinions of the senior leaders of the Linpan Oilfield.

So, since there was already a public security brigade protecting the school gate, the comrades from the Public Security Department could only patrol the streets and look for suspicious people.

Over the course of two days, seven or eight villagers were actually arrested, but they were all caught in various game halls and ice rinks on charges of fighting.

But again, since these villagers deliberately controlled their hands and feet, the circumstances were minor, so in addition to paying for medical expenses, they only needed to be detained for a week at most. Those unemployed young people who were beaten into the hospital only had minor injuries in the broad sense, not "minor injuries" recognized by the forensic doctor.

Ok……

A fool can’t get away from the system!
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All kinds of rumors were spreading about the situation that could never be settled. The Linpan Oilfield and the parents of those students were angry. Just like the situation with the drilling company, these parents and employees united to put tremendous pressure on the teachers of Linpan Middle School. They also planned to organize themselves and wait at the school gate to confront those villagers who were reckless and reckless.

As I said, you will only feel the pain when the stick hits your butt.

However, before these parents and employees were ready, their anger was gradually extinguished by the appearance of several newspapers pasted on news columns everywhere. After looking at each other, they began to feel less righteous.

"The firewood carrier may be killed in the snowstorm?" This is an editorial in the Texas Evening News.

"Heartbroken! We have spared no effort to donate to hundreds of Hope Primary Schools, but the children of enterprise employees are facing the dilemma of having no school to go to!" This is an editorial in Quancheng Daily.

"The peasant brothers are still the same peasant brothers, but the worker friends are no longer the same worker friends" ... This is a headline in the Qilu Workers and Peasants Newspaper.

The contents of the first half of these three editorials are similar. They introduce in detail the whole process of the conflict that occurred in Linpan Middle School. Not only did they release the photo of Wang Jian who was injured and hospitalized, but they also posted the complaints of several students from the drilling company who had suffered long-term campus bullying.

After introducing the causes and consequences of the incident and expressing the author's deep disgust for school bullying, the author changed the subject and began to question the higher authorities of Linpan Oilfield and Linpan Middle School in a sad, angry and desperate tone.

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The Texas Daily wrote: "Those who carry firewood for the people should not be frozen to death in the snow; those who enlighten the ignorant should not be confused by ignorance. Those who pave the way for freedom should not be trapped by thorns. Those who establish the lives of the people should not be allowed to die in silence."

"I don't want to discuss whether the principal and teachers of Linpan Middle School are worthy of the title of 'engineers of the human soul'; nor do I want to discuss whether they are 'enlighteners' or 'ignorants' with their full belly of knowledge;"

"I just want to know, if they still have a bit of social conscience, how could they be so cold-hearted as to sit by and watch the children of a company that donated and built 100 Hope Primary Schools for tens of thousands of out-of-school children suffer from more than a decade of increasingly severe school bullying in their middle school!?"

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The Qilu Workers and Peasants Newspaper interpreted the incident from another perspective:
“In this incident, some people saw chaos, some saw ugliness, some saw indifference, and some saw injustice;”

"But the good news is... there are still people who see that simplest hope!"

"The chaos that happened in Linpan Town and Linpan Middle School is getting worse and worse, and there is no sign of being contained for the time being. Some conspiracy theorists would probably say... this is a cheap revenge act, a revenge instigated by the drilling company, and a pathetic game where the dragon slayer ends up becoming the dragon!"

"But I want to say... it's wrong! Very wrong!"

"This is a reciprocal revenge... I think that's right!"

“But there is absolutely no way this is a revenge plot orchestrated by the drilling company!”

"As a scholar who specializes in the study of the relationship between workers and farmers, I can tell you responsibly that in the local oil and chemical industry where the relationship between workers and farmers is tense, no company has the ability to instruct several villages and hundreds of villagers to go to another central enterprise to carry out such revenge despite the risk of being arrested... Even if they are paid, it is impossible!"

"So, there is only one possibility... This revenge, which was deliberately controlled in scale, was spontaneously organized by these villagers!"

“It’s easy to understand why this happened!”

"Looking at the various actions taken by the drilling company this year, they all demonstrate the social responsibility that a central enterprise should bear... investing in chicken farms, feed mills, slaughtering and cutting plants, high-quality orchards, etc. in various villages;"

"These investments are not made to individuals, but to cooperatives formed by these villager groups after consulting the villagers in each village... This fully demonstrates the superiority of our country's system and the respect and selflessness of this Southwest Petroleum Company for the local villagers... If you are a grassroots civil servant in the countryside, or if you are in the countryside, you will understand the difference."

"In addition, the debt swap model they pioneered, although ostensibly intended to solve the product sales and triangular debt problems of local enterprises, actually the ones who benefited the most are the local villagers!"

"Whether it's those expensive agricultural machinery or those infrastructures that facilitate life and production, they were out of their reach in the past!"

"Although the drilling company's innovative model did not give them these things for free, it gave them another invaluable thing, which is... hope!"

"The men of Qilu may have many shortcomings, and the cultural level of these villagers may not be high. There are even some illiterate people who can't even read a single word."

"But this doesn't stop them from looking at everything around them with their simplest sense of good and evil and values... Similarly, whether you are really good to them, or just pretending to take advantage of them with a smile on your face, these farmers definitely know it better than you think!"

"So, when they find that in that forgotten corner, there is a person who truly cares about you and is good to you, will the peasant brothers take him to heart and treat him as a real relative? ... That is inevitable!"

"So, when the son of this person who really treats you well suffers great injustice and humiliation, and you are unable to seek justice for your son for various reasons, will the peasant brothers feel angry and empathize with you? ... That is inevitable!"

"But do they have the ability to debate right and wrong with the leaders of the Linpan Oilfield and the principal and teachers of Linpan Middle School?... It's obviously impossible!"

"So, they, who are taciturn, adopted the most direct, unpretentious and effective method to seek justice for the drilling company that was really good to them... Although their behavior was a bit inappropriate, their original intention was more precious than gold."

"The teacher once said: [Whoever puts the people in his heart, the people will remember it in their hearts and hold it high]... This is the purest two-way rush and also the most simple moral value."

“Obviously, the drilling company did it, and the villagers did it too! … Although the villagers’ methods were not desirable, they did it!”

"More importantly, through this incident, I once again saw the possibility of actively promoting the relationship between workers and farmers, supporting each other, and working together for prosperity... The farmers are still the same farmers, and [returning sincerity for sincerity] has once again proved to be an eternal truth. As long as our companies can get close to the masses, walk into the masses, and work with the masses like the drilling company, then the future will surely be a smooth road with one step at a time!"

"But what is sad is that through this incident, I found that... the peasant brothers are still the same simple and honest peasant brothers, but some of the worker friends may not be the same worker friends as before..."………………

It has to be said that the editor-in-chief of the Qilu Workers and Peasants Daily was extremely harsh in his editorial, which was full of subjective color and immediately made the Linpan Oilfield a negative example.

Although everyone knows that some things are not what the editor said, the mainstream tone is there and you would not dare to refute it directly even if you have ten times the courage.

If the editorial that took up half a page in Qilu Industry and Commerce Daily was just disgusting about feeding flies to the Linpan Oilfield, then the second half of the editorial in Quancheng Evening News, which has never had much interaction with drilling companies, was extremely heartbreaking.

In fact, the second half of the editorial in Quancheng Evening News did not contain any particularly sensational content. It simply listed in detail the achievements made by the drilling company this year.

Special working group (Linyi County Enterprise Triangle Debt Resolution Group): a total investment of 1.8 million yuan, an expected loss of 4000 million yuan in principal, involving 307 units, preserving 4.5 jobs, covering 393 natural villages (263 natural villages in Linyi County + 130 natural villages in neighboring counties), and benefiting more than 65 rural population.

Momobaizha: quarterly turnover of 1870 million, comprehensive gross profit margin of 18%; upstream and downstream businesses involved 43 units, providing/guaranteeing 5400 jobs, and benefiting more than 2 people;

Momo Baichao + Momo Bailu: quarterly turnover of 1040 million, comprehensive gross profit margin of 13%, upstream and downstream businesses involving 107 units, providing/guaranteeing 7500 jobs, and benefiting more than 5 people;

Laoliu Chicken Breeding Institute: quarterly turnover of 4100 million; comprehensive gross profit margin is unknown (estimated to be 23%), upstream and downstream businesses involve 63 units, provide/guarantee 3500 jobs, benefit-driven population of 1.2, and the project covers 492 natural villages.

Mohua Brewery (export): quarterly turnover of 3100 million, comprehensive gross profit margin unknown, upstream and downstream businesses involving 21 units, providing/guaranteeing 1400 jobs, benefit-driven population of 1.7, and project coverage of 23 natural villages.
100 Hope Primary Schools: …

178 aid and investment projects:……

In short, after listing a series of dazzling results, what shocked everyone was that this year alone, the projects invested by the drilling company have directly or indirectly saved the jobs of employees of more than 700 companies. If the achievements of the special working group are included, the number of people benefited is as high as 121 million!
Although this data does not list the drilling company's investment amount, and the income from many projects is not estimated, anyone with a brain can see that the drilling company's overseas investment this year is definitely not less than 5 million yuan, and the main purpose of these projects is not to make money!
Didn’t you see what’s written above? The special working group invested 1.8 million yuan, and the principal loss is conservatively estimated to be 18 million yuan; and even the most famous Momo 13 Explosion has a gross profit margin of only %; as for Momo Chao and Momo Lu, the gross profit margin is a tear-jerking %... This gross profit margin is not even as good as that of the steamed bun seller on the street!
It is obvious that, just like the rumors circulating in various places in Dezhou and Jinan, the drilling company is undertaking these projects not to make money, but to give back to society based on the responsibility of a state-owned enterprise.

If it were just that, it would not be bad. After all, the 178 Hope Primary Schools and the projects invested in those villages during this period have made everyone appreciate the drilling company's willfulness and gratitude. Now listing these achievements as a summary will only make everyone have more favorable impressions on this unrelated enterprise.

However, the last sentence in the editorial of Quancheng Daily is really fatal.

"As a southwestern enterprise, we have done so much in obscurity in Qilu, but in the end we can't even guarantee the schooling of our own children... Is it worth it?"

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When the leaders of Linpan Oilfield saw this, their brains were about to explode.

Nima!

This is simply putting your own unit on fire!
What does "is it worth it" mean?
With just these few words, not only did his own unit be sent to the eighteenth level of hell in terms of social morality, but the Linpan Oilfield was also suddenly made the "shame of Qilu."

This article is clearly telling the public that a southwestern enterprise is struggling to survive in your Qilu area, while at the same time it is silently contributing selflessly... and it is contributing with all its might.

what is this?
This is the result of putting aside regional conflicts and personal grudges, and is the selflessness that comes from one's own high level of awareness!

But what did we, the people of Qi and Lu, do?
Not only have they made things difficult for their students over the past decade, but as a brother unit in the oil system, they have even condoned the children of local employees and unemployed youths in bullying their students at school... and they even went so far as to send their students to the hospital.

Look at what others have done and what have we done?
Will we, the people of Qi and Lu, still have the face to raise our heads when facing people from the southwest in the future?
Not to mention facing people from the southwest, even when facing people from other places, no one has the face to say that they are from Qi and Lu anymore.

The four words "repaying kindness with enmity" are a label with extremely destructive power no matter where they are placed, let alone Qi and Lu, which claim to be the hometown of Confucius and Mencius?

Now, an ordinary campus bullying incident has risen to the level of regional issues, honor issues, value issues, and even the position issues of central/state-owned enterprises!
"Is it worth it?"

The meaning of these three words is very clear. Since good people don’t get rewarded, why should we try to be good people?

If even state-owned enterprises that work so hard cannot guarantee such basic rights as children's education, then what is the point of talking about "state-owned enterprises' social responsibility"?

If this point is further spread and discussed by public opinion, a lot of blame will befall me!
asshole!

Those guys in the drilling company actually used such a brutal blow!
Damn it, what good will it do you if you get rid of us?
No, we can’t give that bastard Feng Yuan any more room to take advantage of this situation!

Without any hesitation, a middle-aged man who looked fat and strong immediately gave an order: "Secretary Chen, immediately instruct Vice President Huang to go to Linpan Middle School and conduct a serious ideological exchange meeting. Be sure to rectify all kinds of unhealthy tendencies in the school... Remember to take these newspapers to show their principal!"

"Also, have Linpan Middle School compile a list of the troublemakers in the class, and then check their parents' information... If there are any who have severely bullied the drilling company, compile a list of their parents, and then hand it over to the Personnel Department for processing... Even if the parents dare to be in the Organization Department, hand it over to me anyway!"

The secretary next to him immediately understood that this person was determined to solve the problem of school bullying from the root... If it was not convenient to take action against the students, could they not take action against their parents?
And it is obvious that once the list is submitted, the parents of these troublesome students will be directly dismissed if they are contract workers; if they are regular workers or small cadres, they will be thrown into a unpopular logistics department to retire; even if you are the head of a department, you will definitely be called in for a talk by the Organization Department, and then transferred to the tertiary industry department to take charge of production.

I have to say that this knife strike was very fierce, but the effect was absolutely great.

Parents are their children's first teachers and the group that has the greatest influence on them. Although most middle school students are in their rebellious youth and don't listen to their parents very much, if parents lose their jobs because of their children's problems, they will definitely be beaten to death with a belt every day... As the saying goes, good people are made under the yellow stick, and children who have committed heinous crimes, no matter how rebellious they are, will never dare to resist at this time.

Here~!

Once the news spreads quickly and everyone sees with their own eyes what "heavy fatherly love" is, won't the problem be solved?

After the secretary left, a certain leader thought for a moment and dialed the phone on the table:

"Chief Zhang, two things."

"First, I have asked the General Manager's Office to send a letter to the drilling company, asking them to meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon to have an in-depth exchange of opinions on the current misunderstanding. Please make some time for it;"

"Second, it's 9:30 in the morning. Before the afternoon exchange meeting, you must try to meet with their Section Chief Yang Moyang first to see if you can get them to what extent they want to make this matter worse, so that we won't be passive in the afternoon!"

“Even if he refuses to speak out, at least we should ask him to call back those people who are wandering around… Now there are several waves of reporters coming to the oil production plant. Who knows, the headquarters will come for a surprise inspection after seeing the newspapers. Letting the people from the nearby villages wander around here is really causing trouble for us!”

Zhang Kun on the other end of the phone smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay to attend the exchange meeting in the afternoon, but it's impossible to try to meet Yang Mo in advance!"

The middle-aged man frowned and said, "What's going on? Didn't Yang Mo promise to give us a definite answer today? Why did he change his mind?"

Zhang Kun sighed: "It's not that I changed my mind. In fact, I just asked my son to call Yang Mo, but..."

"Mo Mo Bai Tou told me that a group of transport vehicles was stopped at Shanghe River an hour and a half ago, so Yang Mo was invited to help negotiate a solution on the spot."

The middle-aged man was a little confused: "He was stopped? But shouldn't this kind of thing be handled by the Industry and Agriculture Department or their General Office? Why would they let him pass?"

Zhang Kun sighed, "Those vehicles are loaded with construction materials and learning materials for Hope Primary Schools. Yang Mo led the donation to build those 100 Hope Primary Schools, so he can't be separated from the relationship. Besides... the situation over in Shanghe is complicated, and their company's Industry and Agriculture Department and General Office can't solve it at all, so they can only let him go over and try."

The middle-aged man remembered Yang Mo's identity as a local and his extremely close relationship with many villages. He immediately said "oh" and understood, and then asked: "Are you sure there is an emergency and he was called out, and the drilling company is not trying to fool us?"

Zhang Kun smiled helplessly: "The person who answered the phone was not someone else, but Yang Mo's apprentice. My son and Yang Mo have a pretty good personal relationship. His apprentice shouldn't hide this from him."

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment after hearing this: "Well, we can only fight against each other this afternoon... I hope Wang Yinuo and Feng Yuan won't go too far!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone and sighed tiredly.

What the hell is going on!
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At this time, on the 212 bus, which was slowly slowing down, Yang Mo looked at a village entrance not far away, which was surrounded by a lot of people and vehicles. He glanced sharply at the two vans parked in the distance and suddenly said, "Director Zhang, are you sure... today's incident is just an ordinary dispute?"

Zhang Wenshun looked at Yang Mo and nodded innocently: "What else?"

Yang Mo looked at him deeply, smiled without comment, but did not say anything.

When the car stopped, Yang Mo took the lead in pushing open the door, walked to the front of the confronting crowd, glanced at the two large logs used as roadblocks, and calmly looked at the old men who were sitting cross-legged blocking the front of the truck: "I am Yang Mo, the section chief of Momo Baitou, and also the representative of the drilling company responsible for handling this misunderstanding;"

"It's winter, the ground is cold, and it's not worth it if you get frozen. So... which fellow villager is willing to tell me what happened?"

Hearing the words "drilling company", the old men shrugged at Yang Mo's overly young face. Instead of looking disdainful or disappointed, they flashed a hint of nervousness and excitement, and suddenly got up from the ground...

(End of this chapter)